To:HIS MOTHER

Published:First printed in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Sent from London to Samara.

      Printed from 
 the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

      pages346-347.Translated:The Late George H. HannaTranscription\Markup:D. MorosPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive.You may freely copy, distribute,
	display and perform this work, as well as make derivative and
	commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet
	Archive” as your source.•README

June 7, 1902

Motherdearest,

Ihave received a letter from Manyasha and am very
grateful to her. With regard to an address for the despatch
of books, I will try and send it soon. It is a great pity that
you still have to be bothered with this burden! Well, we
shall put an end to all that soon and you will be rid of
all the books.

Weare all expecting you, my dear, and I am
corresponding with Anyuta regarding her plans—how and where to
make arrangements for you to stay. The weather seems to
be continuing fine, here and where Anyuta
lives.[1]Yelizaveta Vasilyevna writes that she will probably be leaving
soon; she does not seem to be very well pleased with her
trip (I, incidentally, tried all the time to talk her out of it,
showing her that there was no need for her to go and that
she would soon be missing us).

Ido not write about my health because I am quite well.
Nadya, too.

Whatabout Mark and his job? Did he take the position
in Tomsk and when is he going there?

Manya’stale of her boat trip made me very envious....
How I should like to be on the Volga in summer! What
a fine time you and Anyuta and I had on the boat in the
spring of
1900.[2]If I cannot get to the Volga, the Volgapeople must come here. There are some nice places here, too,
although of a different kind.

Aurevoir, my dear.

YourV. embraces you fondly.

P.S. I received the Gorky and Skitalets books and read
them withvery greatinterest. I have read them myself
and passed them on to others.

[1]Atthat time Lenin’s sister was living near Dresden.—Ed.

[2]Leninrecalls his trip to Ufa with his mother and his elder sister
in the summer of 1900. From Nizhny Novgorod they travelled
by steamer along the rivers Volga, Kama and Belaya, to visit
Krupskaya who was finishing her term of exile in Ufa.